Psalms 14:4
Shall not the evil-doers be requited, Who devour my people like bread, And call not upon Jehovah?
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
5Yea, then shall they be in great fear; For Jehovah is with the race of the righteous.
Cross References
Job 21:15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what will it profit us, if we pray to him?”
Psalms 27:2When the wicked came upon me to devour me, Even my persecutors and enemies, they stumbled and fell.
Psalms 82:5They are without knowledge and without understanding; They walk in darkness: Therefore all the foundations of the land are shaken.
Proverbs 30:14There is a class, whose teeth are swords, And their jaw-teeth knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, And the needy from among men.
Isaiah 27:11When her boughs are withered, they are broken off; Women come, and burn them; For it was a people of no understanding; Therefore he that made him had not mercy on him, And he that formed him showed him no favor.
Isaiah 44:19None considereth in his mind, Or hath knowledge and understanding to say: “Half of it I have burned with fire; I have also baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and have eaten; And shall I make the remnant an abomination? Shall I fall down before the stock of a tree?”
Matthew Henry on Psalms 14:2-4
Human Depravity. 1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. 2 The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. 3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. If we apply our hearts as Solomon did ( Eccl. vii. 25 ) to search out the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness, these… Read the whole commentary →